Principal Investigator:Lewkowicz, Antoni GLicenced Year(s):
2018
20172016Summary:
The research goal is to look at how permafrost is changing following forest fire over a range of environmental conditions, with the purpose of improving how change is modelled in the future. The fires of 2014 in the southwestern NWT provide an opportunity to examine how discontinuous permafrost responds to disturbances. This work is being carried out in collaboration with an inter-university team ...

Principal Investigator:Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura LLicenced Year(s):
2018
201720162015Summary:
The goal of this project is to identify and collect remote sensing and field data to support the science necessary to investigate the impacts and consequences of the 2014-15 wildfires in Northwest Territories, Canada and to better understand the vulnerability of the Carbon-rich boreal peatlands to burning.
Field crews will navigate to pre-selected sample locations and collect at each location: ...

Principal Investigator:Ruttan, Lia Licenced Year(s):
2017
Summary:
The objective is to carry out research that records, preserves and shares the knowledge, values, experience and techniques used by former Aboriginal firefighters who worked on fire crews based out of Fort Smith NT. They have years of accumulated experience fighting fire in the NT, Wood Buffalo National Park and northern Alberta. The research team aim to use Indigenous and community-based research ...

Principal Investigator:Baltzer, Jennifer LLicenced Year(s):
2017
2016Summary:
The objective is to improve the empirical foundations for predictive caribou habitat mapping within the forested areas of the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield Ecoregions in the Northwest Territories, roughly south of Great Bear Lake. The research team will establish a network of long-term study plots across a range of fire characteristics and vegetation types, where the team will measure the rate and...

Principal Investigator:Tank, Suzanne ELicenced Year(s):2017
2016
Summary:
The objective of this study is to determine the effect of fire on water quality within the southern Northwest Territories landscape. The research team will work across the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield Ecoregions, because it is believed that differences in landscape between these regions will affect the catchment response to fire. The research team will also target catchments with variable permaf...

Principal Investigator:Guêné-Nanchen, Mélina Licenced Year(s):
2016
Summary:
The objective of this project is to evaluate bryophytes regeneration in Northwest Territories burned peatlands to improve the understanding of the structure of mosses ecosystems. This new knowledge should improve the restoration method of disturbed peatlands where the reintroduction and regeneration mosses are problematic.
Several sites will be studied in order to have a range of plant communit...

Principal Investigator:Johnson, Edward A.Licenced Year(s):
1976
Summary:
To explore the role of fire in the sub-arctic ecosystem. Starting in 1976 and continuing for two years studies will be related to: 1) a biophysical land classification system, 2) peatland vegetation change, 3) regulation of nutrient losses in the sub-arctic ecosystem, and 4) paleoecology....